Sep 24, 2026
Author Spotlight: Charles Spencer — The Brother Who Spoke for Diana, Then for the Boy He Was
A deep dive on Charles Spencer — born Charles Edward Maurice Spencer in London on 20 May 1964, the 9th Earl Spencer, historian, journalist and broadcaster, and the younger brother of Diana, Princess of Wales — the man who delivered the eulogy that defined how the world mourned his sister, who spent a decade as an NBC News correspondent and inherited the 13,000-acre Althorp estate, who founded the Althorp Literary Festival and wrote a shelf of bestselling histories, who in 2024 published A Very Private School, the No. 1 bestselling memoir that exposed the abuse he suffered at boarding school, and whose new book Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, published on 22 September 2026, has drawn a rare rebuke from Buckingham Palace and a legal threat from Piers Morgan; his defining reflections on worth without titles, the threat of genuine goodness, the cost of survival, and being an eyewitness to history.